The Deliberative Polls of James Fishkin and Robert Luskin represent today the gold standard of attempts to sample what a considered public…
This article evaluates Ostrom’s classic on its adaption of any coercive system to local features and particularly the costs of monitoring…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts. These regard the choice of rules as an elite-level…
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that…
First Published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 21(1992): 240-274.
The article discusses presidential primary
elections in the United States, their place in the American democracy,
and various ideas for…